Feels like there’s a few different things that can underwrite a rules-based order with teeth, besides military power (which includes embargos/blockades) Veto-based legal regimes (UNSC) Currency exchange rates (WB/IMF) Technical-standards based (ITU etc) Refugee policies
And violence in practice is vastly different from in theory. Every agent with any significant capacity for violence is constrained by its own bad memories of past ineffective use.